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I'm not entirely sure I read your comment correctly, but it sounds like you've never heard the word "whinging" before.

For the avoidance of doubt, it's a real word. It rhymes with "hinging".

Seconded. As soon as you hit 40, every other visit to the doctor involves talking about something going wrong below the waist.

Phew! It's been nearly 30 years since my last German lesson, but I thought I should have been able to read more than I could.

It wasn't until the last panel, where I noticed "Ich" spelled "Ick" that I wondered whether it was written with an accent.

Thanks for the translation!

From the outside looking in, I have to say that the pace of things this time around is pretty alarming.

I pop this on the telly for my kids when they have nightmares. It's interesting enough to distract them, yet gentle enough to lull them to sleep again.

It seems pretty fundamental, but fighting games have had pretty much the same basic UI layout since Street Fighter II. Before then there was a degree of variability as to how the different elements were laid out. Since SFII, it's always been Timer in the middle and Health bars on either side of that.

I didn't know imagetostl took glbs! I honestly wouldn't even have expected it!

I'll definitely be using that then. Blender is great, but I'm tied to one machine - I'd much rather use online tools when I can.

Thanks for that :)

If you have at least one of each piece remaining, then yep - it's easy!

The technology you're after is called photogrammetry, and there are two inexpensive ways that I use often (there are more, but these are the two I rely on)

1. KIRI Engine - I have a subscription, but I think there is a free tier. You take about twenty photos of the object from different angles, upload for processing, and you get a 3D model back that you can print.

2. TRELLIS - take a single photograph and upload to here:

https://huggingface.co/spaces/JeffreyXiang/TRELLIS

You will receive a 3D model back that you can import into Blender, run a mesh operation to merge by distance (to create a watertight model), export as STL and then print.

KIRI Engine requires more work upfront, with all the photos, but is the best at recreating existing things accurately.

TRELLIS requires more work at the end, because it doesn't automatically create printable models, and it isn't a finished product yet, but it is the closest thing to actual witchcraft I've experienced.

People are still people, and money is just there to facilitate transactions required for the stuff you need.

Part of the problem is that a bunch of not-rights have decided that instead the point of money is to accrue it like some kind of high score.

If you are so rich that you no longer experience the normal problems associated with being a person, such as bad hair days, then you've probably become a weirdo yourself.

Ok,

I'd have paid off my student loans and mortgage already, as that's the first thing I'd do as soon as I received the money.

I guess a typical Friday would involve me waking up at noon, pottering about in my pyjamas for a few hours, then working on whatever project I have on the go. I'm one of those people who has an obsession-of-the-month, and I can't imagine that would change.

I'd have more time to spend with my kids and partner than I do, which I imagine would be nice.

On the whole, I don't think it'd be wildly different to how I live now - only that without the pressure that I have to work so many hours a day, I'd have more time to spend with my family.

Exactly this!

I mentioned One Page Rules in particular because it's the one that I still play.

The buy-in is zero - you get the core rules for free. They are clean, easy to remember, and fast to play with.

OPR : Grimdark Future is the 40k equivalent OPR : Grimdark Future Firefight is a smaller scale skirmish based version. I like Firefight best personally - you can play with just a handful of figures per team.

An additional aspect is that it is miniature agnostic. Most of the teams are "legally distinct" spins on the 40k factions, with each troop type having an equivalent, but you can use any miniatures you have (regardless of who makes them) totally legitimately.

They have a free army building web app called Army Forge. You can spin up a couple of armies based on the models you have already, print off the rules, and have a quick game straight away :)

Edit: I just visited their homepage and thought I should clarify something. When they say "receive 50 minis a month", they are talking about files for 3d printing these miniatures, not actual physical figures in the mail!

I'm an oldie who got into 40k way back in the early 90s with the Rogue Trader stuff.

In my honest opinion, I love the minis (they look glorious), but I would not recommend the current game to anyone. It's far too expensive and just not that fun.

There are better games out there that you can play using 40k minis. One Page Rules : Grimdark Future is one such example.